For Romney: Debt and deficit

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Would you support any tax increases whatsoever as a means to reduce the deficit, or must the task be accomplished by spending cuts alone? How do you balance your desire to increase military spending with your goal for the nation to live within its means? You have said you would offset the cost of your tax cuts by eliminating deductions and loopholes in the tax code. Which deductions? Which loopholes? Do you support the partial privatization of Social Security, as your running mate, Paul Ryan, has proposed in the past?

Would you support any tax increases whatsoever as a means to reduce the deficit, or must the task be accomplished by spending cuts alone? How do you balance your desire to increase military spending with your goal for the nation to live within its means? You have said you would offset the cost of your tax cuts by eliminating deductions and loopholes in the tax code. Which deductions? Which loopholes? Do you support the partial privatization of Social Security, as your running mate, Paul Ryan, has proposed in the past?